3 ms·

Apple isn't dead yet – iPhone 5S and iOS7 have a secret weapon

10 points by antr 13y ago

rayiner 13y ago
This article is nonsensical. Completely rewrite? OS X has been 64-bit since forever, and I believe Mach supported 64-bit systems in the 1980s. I was disappointed to see how much of dalivk/libcore wasn't 64-bit clean considering it was written this decade.
pinaceae 13y ago
Inflammatory headline playing with the common narrative but then the article looks beyond the current Apple babble. "isn't dead yet" is quite a load of BS though in any form. the iPhone business alone, not Apple in full, just that one business line, is bigger than Coca Cola and McDonalds. Bigger than Google. any founder would give their left nut/ovary to have this kind of "misfortune". people lining up for your product despite the biting media coverage.
- rtpg 13y ago
  I'm not agreeing with the "Apple is dead" stuff, but size-based arguments might not be the best: IBM was humongous at one point as well (granted they haven't quite disappeared now either). When you start falling from the top, it takes a while before you hit the ground.
temuze 13y ago
>> Apple isn't dead yet What a terrible headline for an article. Is anyone worried that Apple is dead? They have 137 billion dollars in the bank and the iPhone has about 40% market share in the US. The iPhone makes more money than all of Microsoft's products combined.
bagosm 13y ago
Ok, so either this is a paid presentation for the "poorer cousin" 5c or a paid vanity advertisement for how apple innovates - just not RIGHT now... but we do have the chips installed (and paid) for the future! Promise! - and how apple has innovated by... dropping older technologies. Dont get me wrong, I like apple very much, but this article is an advertisement that from the title to the conclusion doesn't make sense or contact with reality.
nl 13y ago
This is a stupid article. * "S" models are always incremental changes. * 64bit O/S on mobile won't really change anything for a couple of years. * Multipath TCP/IP is an excellent new feature, but no one says that Google's continuous experimentation with HTTP alternatives in Chrome is a critical advantage. Apple deserves plaudits for implementing Multipath, and it should make a small incremental improvement for end users, but that's pretty much it.
solnyshok 13y ago
64 bits with 1 GB of physical RAM and multipath TCP are billed as innovation in that article. IMO, these are even less useful to mass consumer than NFC, so openly avoided by Apple
- koffiezet 13y ago
  NFC has no real world use-cases, and the implementation in Android sucks (no access to NFC from the Native SDK, not all card/tag types supported, and Google not being very helpful when asking questions about it) and compatibility of the NFC readers highly depends from phone model to phone model. Simple stuff? Sure that works. The interesting stuff? Or it should work but doesn't, or it's not supported. Source: I work in a company that specializes in NFC/RFID stuff for public transport, and we tried getting it to work. Apple chose to take another path: they use BlueTooth, another standard. BT 4.0 can do everything NFC can (functionality-wise, tech is obviously not compatible), and then some. BT 4.0 is very low-power, devices only supporting subsets of BT4 can be made extremely cheap, and it doesn't require a huge antenna to be able to power nearby NFC tags or RFID chips.

10 points by antr 13y ago

This article is nonsensical. Completely rewrite? OS X has been 64-bit since forever, and I believe Mach supported 64-bit systems in the 1980s. I was disappointed to see how much of dalivk/libcore wasn't 64-bit clean considering it was written this decade.

pinaceae 13y ago

Inflammatory headline playing with the common narrative but then the article looks beyond the current Apple babble. "isn't dead yet" is quite a load of BS though in any form. the iPhone business alone, not Apple in full, just that one business line, is bigger than Coca Cola and McDonalds. Bigger than Google. any founder would give their left nut/ovary to have this kind of "misfortune". people lining up for your product despite the biting media coverage.

rtpg 13y ago
I'm not agreeing with the "Apple is dead" stuff, but size-based arguments might not be the best: IBM was humongous at one point as well (granted they haven't quite disappeared now either). When you start falling from the top, it takes a while before you hit the ground.

temuze 13y ago

>> Apple isn't dead yet What a terrible headline for an article. Is anyone worried that Apple is dead? They have 137 billion dollars in the bank and the iPhone has about 40% market share in the US. The iPhone makes more money than all of Microsoft's products combined.

bagosm 13y ago

Ok, so either this is a paid presentation for the "poorer cousin" 5c or a paid vanity advertisement for how apple innovates - just not RIGHT now... but we do have the chips installed (and paid) for the future! Promise! - and how apple has innovated by... dropping older technologies. Dont get me wrong, I like apple very much, but this article is an advertisement that from the title to the conclusion doesn't make sense or contact with reality.

nl 13y ago

This is a stupid article. * "S" models are always incremental changes. * 64bit O/S on mobile won't really change anything for a couple of years. * Multipath TCP/IP is an excellent new feature, but no one says that Google's continuous experimentation with HTTP alternatives in Chrome is a critical advantage. Apple deserves plaudits for implementing Multipath, and it should make a small incremental improvement for end users, but that's pretty much it.

solnyshok 13y ago

64 bits with 1 GB of physical RAM and multipath TCP are billed as innovation in that article. IMO, these are even less useful to mass consumer than NFC, so openly avoided by Apple

koffiezet 13y ago
NFC has no real world use-cases, and the implementation in Android sucks (no access to NFC from the Native SDK, not all card/tag types supported, and Google not being very helpful when asking questions about it) and compatibility of the NFC readers highly depends from phone model to phone model. Simple stuff? Sure that works. The interesting stuff? Or it should work but doesn't, or it's not supported. Source: I work in a company that specializes in NFC/RFID stuff for public transport, and we tried getting it to work. Apple chose to take another path: they use BlueTooth, another standard. BT 4.0 can do everything NFC can (functionality-wise, tech is obviously not compatible), and then some. BT 4.0 is very low-power, devices only supporting subsets of BT4 can be made extremely cheap, and it doesn't require a huge antenna to be able to power nearby NFC tags or RFID chips.